Football preview: Wydad Casablanca vs Maghreb Fès - predictions and statistics

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Competition: Morocco Botola Pro
Competition: Wed 25.January
Match begins: 19:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Mohamed V (55000 seats)

Wydad Casablanca are located at 2nd, while Maghreb Fès are dragging their feet 7 points behind in the standings. Can they decrease the gap?

Insights:
  • Wydad Casablanca have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Maghreb Fès have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

This pitch has the surface grass, unlike Maghreb Fès's home ground. The previous 30 games by the away team on grass have ended with 5 wins, 19 draws and 6 losses.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Wydad Casablanca form and stats

Wydad Casablanca have performed here at Stade Mohamed V this season with 4 wins from 6 Botola Pro matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 1 game and lost 1.

The Casablanca goalkeeper is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 368 minutes without conceding a goal in the Botola Pro.

A good away victory last time out for Wydad Casablanca, who won 1-0 against Riadi Salmi (placed 8th).

0-0 away at Olympic Safi before that.

It should be noted that a glance at the 11 latest league fixtures reveals that 9 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the sides scored).

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as FAR Rabat are coming to town in four days.

A decent goal production from Casablanca in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 6 league matches. Wydad Casablanca are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stade Mohamed V in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 6 matches.

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Maghreb Fès form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Botola Pro travels is 2 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

Maghreb Fès delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Hassania Agadir (placed 13th) in their previous game.

Prior to that match, the Maghreb manager Chkilit faced defeat when travelling to FAR Rabat and losing 1-2.

The schedule is very tough for Maghreb Fès now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Botola Pro game at Moghreb Tétouan is waiting in only three days.

The visiting Maghreb have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 9 goals from 7 games. As opposed to that, Maghreb Fès have seen the ball go into their own net 9 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Wydad Casablanca have not lost in the last 11 matches (5-6-0) facing Maghreb Fès.

Top Goalscorers

Wydad CasablancaA. Hassouni
A. Hassouni
5 goals
CasablancaB. Junior Sambou
B. Junior Sambou
3 goals
Maghreb FèsM. El Badoui
M. El Badoui
3 goals

Wydad Casablanca missing players

Maghreb Fès missing players

Wydad Casablanca Maghreb Fès
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
14 6 3 Played P 4 7 14
8 4 2 Won W 0 2 5
4 1 1 Drew D 2 3 6
2 1 0 Lost L 2 2 3
17 9 5 Scored S 2 9 15
9 4 1 Conceded C 4 9 12
79% 83% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 71% 71%
57% 67% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 71% 57%
43% 50% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 71% 43%
7% 17% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 29% 14%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 7%
36% 50% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 71% 50%
57% 50% 67% Clean Sheets C S 50% 29% 43%
29% 17% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 29% 36%
 
5.3 6.3 7.3 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.6 4.3
2.9 3.3 3.3 Corners against (avg) C A 3.8 3.4 3.6
2.6 2.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.2 2.4 2.6
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
9.5 11.2 12 Shots (avg) S ( 7 8.3 9.7
3.9 4.2 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 2.3 3.4
31% 36% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 43% 27%
 
6.9 6.7 6 Shots against (avg) S A 10.2 10 8
1.9 1.7 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.8 2.8 2.5
Key stats in Botola Pro this season:
  • Maghreb Fès have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Wydad Casablanca have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Wydad Casablanca have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 FAR Rabat 14 8 4 2 21 9 7 4 2 1 13 6 7 4 2 1 8 3 12 28
2 Wydad Casablanca 14 8 4 2 17 9 6 4 1 1 9 4 8 4 3 1 8 5 8 28
3 Raja Casablanca 14 7 5 2 18 8 8 5 3 0 11 4 6 2 2 2 7 4 10 26
4 FUS Rabat 14 7 5 2 17 8 7 3 3 1 8 4 7 4 2 1 9 4 9 26
5 Olympic Safi 14 6 5 3 15 13 6 2 3 1 5 4 8 4 2 2 10 9 2 23
6 Maghreb Fès 14 5 6 3 15 12 7 3 3 1 6 3 7 2 3 2 9 9 3 21
7 UTS Rabat 14 6 3 5 13 13 7 4 0 3 7 5 7 2 3 2 6 8 0 21
8 Riadi Salmi 14 5 5 4 16 15 7 1 3 3 5 9 7 4 2 1 11 6 1 20
9 RSB Berkane 14 5 5 4 12 12 8 4 1 3 9 8 6 1 4 1 3 4 0 20
10 Difaa El Jadida 14 5 5 4 15 19 7 4 2 1 8 7 7 1 3 3 7 12 -4 20
11 Chabab Mohammedia 14 5 3 6 13 16 7 2 3 2 8 10 7 3 0 4 5 6 -3 18
12 Moghreb Tétouan 14 3 7 4 17 21 7 2 3 2 7 10 7 1 4 2 10 11 -4 16
13 Hassania Agadir 14 3 5 6 13 15 7 1 4 2 7 8 7 2 1 4 6 7 -2 14
14 Mouloudia Oujda 14 2 4 8 13 19 7 0 3 4 6 10 7 2 1 4 7 9 -6 10
15 Khouribga 14 0 6 8 7 17 7 0 2 5 4 10 7 0 4 3 3 7 -10 6
16 Ittihad Tanger 14 0 2 12 5 21 7 0 1 6 2 10 7 0 1 6 3 11 -16 2

Read more about Botola Pro

The Botola Pro (or Botola Premier League) is the top level football league in Morocco. Botola literally means “the Moroccan Championship”. It’s season runs from August to May and has 16 teams each playing 30 fixtures to decide the final league table. The Botola Pro is the most watched football league in Africa according to Wikipedia, and football the most popular sport in Morocco.